角度 Gok Dou LIVE by Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Art Central 2022
Meaning “perspectives”, Gok Dou Live is a platform for the exchange of ideas on contemporary issues, with talks, videos and performance art featuring artists, curators, collectors, writers, publishers, and more. Watch these conversations flow LIVE at the Art Central auditorium.
A pivotal force in the development of art and community in Hong Kong since 2011, Asia Society Hong Kong Centre for Gok Dou Live will bring to you an engaging program of talks featuring artists, curators, collectors, writers, publishers, critics, and more to Art Central’s international audience.
From the Fair Floor
Site-specific performance pieces from the Art Central Auditorium that sound off ideas of attachment, relationship, contemplation, and expression in movement.
Photo provided by performer Kiwi Chan
Kiwi Chan is an independent artist and creative producer, where she focuses on Butoh performance, experimental theatre, and site-specific dance. She devotes herself to contemporary theatre, as she believes that performing art is the best field for sharing the presence. She sees her creations as both her passion and struggle, as well as to satisfy her craving on exploring various possibilities. As she enjoys the topic of the dilemma of the body, Butoh and Contact Improvisation has proven to be her truest sources of inspiration since 2012. Butoh is not only a dance form but also a philosophy. Her recent director’s works include: A Mind Apart - Immersive Theatre Experience with Virtual Reality (2021), A Capsule of Being (2021), It’s Okay (2021). Butoh-inspired productions include: choreography for dance video The Loss of the Indigo Child (2021), solo-presentation Indigo Appetite: The Weird Fishes (2020), site-specific dance The Wrong Suzie, indie theatre work Crimson Appetite and co-creation Possi/Proba-bility (2017). Kiwi founded the KIWI & ZENZERO STUDIO in 2018, and established a non-profit arts group STAR & DUST COLLECTIVE in 2021, with a commitment to arts project curation and production.
(Photo by Jesse Clockwork)
Love Elasticity of Demand
Kiwi’s performance is based on the nature of a mother-daughter relationship, echoing on the idea of recovering and being resilient. Including textual and sound elements, the performance is an intimate piece as it will narrate on her experience of witnessing her mother’s hurdles when undergoing her cancer treatments and how Kiwi herself responded by gradually detaching herself from the family.
Photo provided by Joseph Lee.
承蒙不加鎖舞踊館批准參與是項演出
Appearance by kind permission of Unlock Dancing Plaza.
Joseph Lee is a Hong Kong-based choreographer and performer. Graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Place, London Contemporary Dance School in the United Kingdom. Lee is currently the Associate Artistic Director of Unlock Dancing Plaza, curating a series of contemporary dance programs and platforms to foster artistic discourse in the performing arts field locally and internationally. Lee is interested in reading, transfer, and re-enactment of bodily experience which reveals the performative nature of everyday life in contemporary society. His works translate and re-organize the experience and contexts within the physical body through live performance, writing, moving image and curation with the aim of expanding the audience's imaginary horizons of choreography. Choreographic works include Folding Echoes (2016), Drifting (2019) and We Are Spectacles (2021).
(Photo by Steve Li)
Trajectory of Jumps
跳躍的軌跡
Joseph’s performance, by incorporating elements of texts and speech, is inspired by the idea of staying resilient and recovering. His piece focuses on the transition from expressive motions into contemplative perspectives. Here, he interprets that by morphing his body into forms of ‘moving sculptures’, where viewers can enjoy his constant, intense, and fluid transformations throughout.
HIGH RES Worlds
In this virtual collaboration, nine Hong Kong and Asian diasporic artists share with us their fictional worlds—that follow contemporary art, technology, personal narratives, and diving into forms of multi-media work. Expect shots from the psyche, fictional characters, experimental sounds bites, and takes on performative dance. From the artists Choi Sai Ho, Jessie Tam, It's Us: Ophelia, Lo Lai Lai, Kenneth Ka Chun Hui, Bo Choy, Ka Kiu Chan, Hu Rui and Joshua Serafin.
This showcase will reconstruct their expansive creative bodies and careers, and examine how digital worlds can affect our perception of art. Uncover more in the world of visual, performative, digital, and computerised scenes.
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Collector and Artist Relationships
May 25
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Accessible for VIP ticket holders only
House of Fortune (2021), Mak2
A one-on-one conversation on collector and artist relationships in a digital era with Jacobo Garcia Gil and artist Mak2. As social media influence takes hold of the art market, the gap between artist and collector is shrinking, and with it the potential for global connection grows. Artist Mak2 tackles subcultures of the internet, socio-political discourse and philosophy through humor, installation, painting and video work; while collector and founder of Divide By Zero, Jacobo focuses on socio-cultural works with a curatorial drive aimed at supporting artists grow in their careers. Take a glimpse into the minds of two industry-leaders, revealing their place and path in the art world.
May 26
3:00 – 4:00 pm
2016 The Path Together
A look into the cultural institutions, galleries and non-profit organizations that are shaping the arts and culture landscape in Hong Kong. As the pandemic continues to affect artists, patrons and fans globally, we question the direction of the industry, changing philosophies from curators to education alike, and the digitization of platforms. With minds behind them: S. Alice Mong, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Antony J. Chan, Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong, Tiffany Pinkstone, Sovereign Art Foundation, and Özge Ersoy, Asia Art Archive.
Practices of Cultural Identity
May 27
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Fumes of Fancy IV (detail), 2022, Angela Yuen, Dia 48 x H 52 cm
From installation to exhibition, how do gallery artists tap into Hong Kong’s cultural identity? Back dropped by a hyper-dense population, urban and natural sprawl Mark Chung, Angela Yuen and Elaine Chiu create installation, painting and digital works that peel back an ever-changing landscape. They take us through their individual practices and mediums affected by the metropolis that is Hong Kong.
Curator and Artist Relationships
May 27
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Dony Cheng Hung Right Stars / Street Lights, 2021 Charcoal, soft pastel, pencil on canvas 65 × 70 cm Courtesy of the artist and am Space Left Reflective Lake, 2021 Charcoal, soft pastel, pencil, acrylic on canvas 146 × 104 cm
Listen in as curator Erin Li and artist Dony Cheng Hung share their experiences, opinions and knowledge on the relationship between curator and artist. In an intimate one-on-one chat covering their personal practices from paintings, site-specific installations to exhibitions. What’s it like to create a scene together? They share ideas and ancedotes on materiality and emotion, and the blurry lines between showing and creating art.
Sexuality, Queer Culture and Art Making
May 27
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Do You Know Where the Birds Are? Photography, 2018. Installation View of Exhibition “Light” at Seen Fifteen Gallery, London
Follow the creative practices of Liao Jiaming, Wong Ka Ying and Monique Yim through this artist talk taking on queer culture, sexuality and expression. In their mediums of photography, installation, video, and visual art. Beyond the white-cube space are creative practices that aim to deconstruct expectations to observe and tackle cultural, social and gender issues.
May 28
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Joel Kwong (2021), Yesterdays Fiction
Hanging jpegs on the blockchain has become the norm and creating through digital tech the common wave, not just new. Pass the NFT revolution, how has technology changed the way we perceive art? Digital art has given power to new levels of expression outside the physical into physics defying worlds. This focused conversation between an artist Chris Cheung, curator Joel Kwong, former MTV Asia executive Henry Middleton, and CoBo Social Managing Editor Denise Tsui is a 360 degree look into how creative platforms, expressions and technology have changed from Baby Boomers to Zoomers.
May 28
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Photo by Karen Yu
Hidden behind Hong Kong’s skyscrapers and financial stereotypes it glows as an underground hub for subcultures in the street, music and performance. When you dig a little deep independent artists Joseph Chen, Miko Badiola Borje, Karen Yu and Go Hung are taking on an underground art scene that walks the line between fine-art and experimental. Follow along, in an exploratory discussion that tries to make sense of an emerging scene of multi-disciplinary and emerging artists under a global context.
May 29
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Stephanie Teng (2020), Moon n°2,2.1,2.2
As therapy, experiment and expression, photography takes form behind the eyes of Stephanie Teng, Kenny X. Li, Fung Ho Yin and Lau Ching Ping. This focused conversation will track their individual practices in contemporary photography taking shape through film, digital, printed paper and open image making. Find out how the boundaries have expanded for the medium.
Independent Art Spaces Roundtable
May 29
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Post Digital Materiality (2020) at 1A space
What's behind the scenes? Founders, curators and artists of Hong Kong’s independent art spaces come together for a panel discussion on the latest. Cathleen Ching Yee Lau, Yim Sui Fong, Juliana Chan, Daniel Stempfer, and Kim Lam on the glamourous and not so outside the confines of commercial galleries and art fairs — it’s in the neighbourhoods of Sham Shui Po, Tai Kok Tsui, To Kwa Wan and North Point that these galleries, residencies, studios and creative hubs form the launching point for many local artists. Uncover how.
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